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Ænema · Tool

EXERCISE 1 OF 92
Groove AG -- Chorus
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PART B
PART E
PART J
PART T
CHORUS
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART AV
PART AX
OUTRO
15 groovesAGTAXBAV+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ænema on drums

199 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 122 BPM, 6:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:17
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-83, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-106, 124-146 and 148-150, and 1 more place -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    102
    1...........2...........3...........
SD |------------------x-----------------|
T1 |----------X-----------------X-------|
T2 |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
FT |x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x-|
Ænema -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 52, 60, 62 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ænema?

122 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Ænema hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ænema?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 52, 60, 62 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED